The victory of reason : how Christianity led to freedom, capitalism, and Western success /
Stark, Rodney,
The victory of reason : how Christianity led to freedom, capitalism, and Western success / [print] Rodney Stark. - Random House trade pbk. edition. - New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, (c)2006. - 281 pages ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Random House, c2005.
Introduction : reason and progress -- part I. Foundations. Blessings of rational theology ; Medieval progress : technical, cultural, and religious ; Tyranny and the "rebirth" of freedom -- pt. II. Fulfillment. Perfecting Italian capitalism ; Capitalism moves North ; "Catholic" anticapitalism : Spanish and French despotism ; Feudalism and capitalism in the new world -- Conclusion : globalization and modernity.
In The victory of reason, sociologist Stark advances the idea that Christianity and its related institutions are directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and nonsecular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason. While the world's other great belief systems emphasized mystery, obedience, or introspection, Christianity alone embraced logic and reason as the path toward enlightenment, freedom, and progress.--From publisher description.
9780812972337
2006284804
Christian civilization.
Capitalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
BR115.S795.V538 2006 BR115
The victory of reason : how Christianity led to freedom, capitalism, and Western success / [print] Rodney Stark. - Random House trade pbk. edition. - New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, (c)2006. - 281 pages ; 21 cm.
Originally published: New York : Random House, c2005.
Introduction : reason and progress -- part I. Foundations. Blessings of rational theology ; Medieval progress : technical, cultural, and religious ; Tyranny and the "rebirth" of freedom -- pt. II. Fulfillment. Perfecting Italian capitalism ; Capitalism moves North ; "Catholic" anticapitalism : Spanish and French despotism ; Feudalism and capitalism in the new world -- Conclusion : globalization and modernity.
In The victory of reason, sociologist Stark advances the idea that Christianity and its related institutions are directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and nonsecular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason. While the world's other great belief systems emphasized mystery, obedience, or introspection, Christianity alone embraced logic and reason as the path toward enlightenment, freedom, and progress.--From publisher description.
9780812972337
2006284804
Christian civilization.
Capitalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
BR115.S795.V538 2006 BR115